Unstable packages on Stable distr.

2001-02-28 Thread Terry Hancock
Hi, I have only one computer (working anyway), which I use for fairly important information. So, I use the stable Debian distribution on it. However, I also do development on this machine, so I often need later versions of libraries and so on that I'm using in my projects. If I could just

Re: Unstable packages on Stable distr.

2001-02-28 Thread Dave Carrigan
Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In many cases these seem to be frivolous assumptions. It seems very implausible to me (for example) that compiling libsdl1.1 _really_ requires libc6 = 2.1.97. I'm pretty sure that, installing from source, libc6 version 2.1.3 (in Debian 2.2) will

Re: Unstable packages on Stable distr.

2001-02-28 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:06:08PM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote: The reason is that the unstable packages seem to have the assumption built into them that they will never be used on a stable distr system -- that is they have dependencies on later versions of basic packages. This has

Re: Unstable packages on Stable distr.

2001-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason is that the unstable packages seem to have the assumption built into them that they will never be used on a stable distr system -- that is they have dependencies on later versions of basic packages. Consider this for a moment; how should unstable

Re: Unstable packages on Stable distr.

2001-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 12:06:08PM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote: The reason is that the unstable packages seem to have the assumption built into them that they will never be used on a stable distr system -- that is they have dependencies on later versions of